I just wrote a post about the fact that:
And I hit save and… it was gone.
So now you are stuck reading this lame short one so please lower your expectations.
Anyway, the point of the post is what I’ve already said, so really I don’t need to write much.
I wrote a book!
It looks like this:
It is red and shiny* and will be available soon.
I also want to mention that the book is over half new material, I think the breakdown was roughly 70% new stories. You’ll recognize the old favorites if you’ve hung around here for the last year and a half or if you’ve ever stayed up too late reading the archives. I had to include them, the book wouldn’t have been complete if I had left certain stories out. But most of it you haven’t seen.
So go HERE to see where to pre-order and read more details.
*I don’t know if it will be shiny. It might be matte. Don’t sue me.
Sold!!! Can’t wait!
I am so happy for you!!!
Thank you for the gift of laughter that you share with the world.
In celebration, I have the best knock-knock joke for you and Crappy Boy!
(It’s best said outloud!)
Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Smell Mop.
Smell Mop Who?
(laughing because of how it sounds outloud!!!)
Love, Christine
Haha! This is fantastic!
Love it!
wow, I didn’t get it at first because I didn’t say it out loud….and then I did. hahahahahahahah
wonderful! 🙂
Bahahaha. I had to actually say it out loud to get it.
I had to read it out loud a couple of times to ‘hear’ it.
That is awesome Christine – still laughing lol
I had to read this 5 times before I got it….but my 14yo got it on the first try of telling him…his reply “I’d rather not!” Hahaha
lol good one … I had to say it out loud to get it lol
hahahaha OH lord … just in time for the weekend … “Hey Mama! SmellMopWho!!!” hehehe joy.
Totally telling my joke obsessed kiddos this one! They’ll never believe mama just made a poo joke. 😀
Buahahaha! My boys will think this is fantastic!
I read your whole blog in just a few days back in December (yes, when I should have been worried about decorating and wrapping presents and whatnot), and love whenever you have a new post. I can’t wait to read your book when it comes out!! I always look forward to the end of March because that’s the beginning of spring, but your book may just trump that. 😉
Awesome. Congrats! You’re one of the few links my husband appreciates me sending to him 🙂
Yay! I’ve been reading your blog for quite a few months. The day I caught up on reading all of your posts was a terrible day. I realized I’d actually have to WORK while at work. I wish you could post 10 a day so I’d have something funny to distract me. I will definitely be buying your book or asking someone to buy it for me. No… I’ll be buying your book. Yay! 🙂
yay!! Been waiting for this for a very long time 🙂
I just want to mention to all the fab Parenting Illustrated with Crappy Pictures readers that on-line pre-sales are really important– more important than I ever knew until some writerly type friends of mine posted about this on the ol’ book of face. So…if you love CP & you are thinking you are going to get this book when it comes out…go ahead and pre-order it NOW instead of waiting. Plus then you won’t forget (if you are anything like me! ha!)…
PS I don’t actually have any affiliation with Amber or know her, I’m not a publicist for anything, much less the publishing house, etc etc. This is just friendly PSA!!!
🙂 Tis true. Pre-order sales help the publisher know if they should (and if so, where they should) send me on a book tour for example. That and a whole bunch of other stuff that is important. I’ll probably write about this next month when we’re closer and I’m in a nervous panic.
I have been reading your blog since my son was born 2 and some odd years ago and have read the whole thing! You keep me going on rough days! I was ecstatic to read this post and immediately reserved/bought my crappy pictures book! If i get any say in your book tour as a pre-sale costumer, you will come to Florida! 🙂
Yes! Florida wants you here!!!
Thanks for the PSA, I didn’t know that and will go preorder now! 🙂
Mayim Bialik’s blurb is spot-on.
“Amber Dusick has transformed the truest, grittiest, most cringe-inducing trials of parenthood into something wonderfully hysterical, poignant and meaningful.”
May I add that the real gift of your work, for me, is reminding us that the joy in parenting comes from sticking around, paying close attention and finding the humor in the everyday, messy moments we initially would like to flee. No need for the rose-colored glasses. Armed with a sense of humor, the poop-colored ones work just fine.
That rose-colored/poop-colored bit is brilliant!
Feel free to use it . . .
Available from Indigo! HURRAY! Can’t wait to read this!
Oh my god congratulations!!! That is so awesome, can’t wait to read it!!!
I’ve just pre-ordered it on Amazon UK! 😀
Thank you!!
not here until May? argh. must go beg friends in the US to get it for me!
Hardcover is 26 March! Paperback will be in May. On Amazon UK. Believe I’ll preorder tomorrow. 🙂
Yay so exciting can’t wait!
Will this be available electronically at all for a Kindle for example? Just wondering because real books make really good stools and confetti at my house right now.
Yes, it is available for pre-order on Kindle from Amazon; Nook from B&N as well as in ebook form from a variety of other online places.
My Kindle doesn’t show color. Will that decrease the enjoyment of your pictures at all? In other words, how much will your stories rely on seeing more than different shades of gray?
I’d rather get it on my Kindle, but if it’ll suck, I’ll probably get the book instead.
I’m wondering the same thing too… I want the Kindle version, but not if it doesn’t translate well to b&w.
🙁 (I know, I have an old Kindle) I’d like to pre-order, but I just don’t know whether to commit to the Kindle or the book version. ha ha
So exciting. I get to tell people that I “know” an author! A famous author! it makes me cooler, somehow. How old am I?
Of course, your book is all about me.
somehow…
I have a question about the book. It is just like the blog, right?
Part of me is worried because it’s called a “book” that it will be some new stories (i.e. blog posts) but lots of writing and chapters and whatnot. Not that I hate reading or anything. Also Amber’s writing is really funny even without the pictures. But I’m expecting mostly/almost entirely new blog posts with crappy pictures printed out. In color. That’s what we’re getting, right?
Yeah, it is formatted exactly like the blog. A truckload of pictures and not a whole lot of text.
Even if it was a different format, it would still be hilarious. It’s not like a different person is writing it. Whatever it looks like, it’s going to be awesome-sauce.
I follow your blog, and I love it. I have two kiddos a bit younger than yours and they think poop is hilarious. I, on the other hand, think you are hilarious. Thanks for writing a book. It will be a dangerous day when it comes in the mail as I will probably hideout in the bathroom reading and laughing for awhile as my kids destroy in the living room. Preferably without poop, but you know . . . thanks anyways!
The bathroom is where it is meant to be read!
This comment made my whole day. Mothers united for privacy in the bathroom. We should start a club…
Go MUPB! I’m in! 😉
I’m one of those who stayed up way too late reading all your posts a few months ago and I’ve been hooked ever since! I will most definitely order your book!!!
Ordered through Wal-Mart.com! Can’t wait! My babies are all grown , and now my grand-babies are having their own little ‘poop-makers’…this will be a great gift for them! 🙂
Congratulations!!! this is so awesome. And you know I’ll sue you if it’s not glossy xo {btw – thank you so much for linking to the book}
I took it as a sign from the Crappy universe that I must have this, since it’s being released on my birthday!
Yay! I just pre-ordered one on Amazon! Can’t wait!
Are you going on tour with it also?
congratulations!! i can’t wait!!!!
Just pre-ordered from B&N today!!! Can’t wait! Some days I feel like you have a spy camera in my house and are blogging about my life! 🙂 Thank’s for the reassurance that I’m not the only one!
Yay! Congratulations! Can’t wait to buy a copy for myself and every mama I know! Even my boys, 11 and 13 love your blog!
Congratulations on the forthcoming birth of your book baby! Ooh, I can’t wait to read it! Knowing me, that will take me all of one day at the most… I’m sure it will be a great success! 😀
I, too, have just ordered it from Amazon UK. I may end up getting several copies as presents for my chums.
I’ve just ordered a copy! (Am in the UK)
Excited!!
Hi, I would love to get your book too! Do you know if it will be available in New Zealand????
Yea! Congratulations on joining the author leagues (I write under a pen name). There’s nothing like the joy of holding your own book in your own hands and unlike a child, it can’t vomit on you.
I think you need to set up a section of your blog for us all to comment on each story. Like, the pages that the story starts on or something….. I think you are amazing, but the comments here are almost as good as the blog posts! Please consider this. And CONGRATS!!!!!!! I will be ordering one as well. 🙂
That would be fun but I guess she would have to do it rather generically (Picture 1, Page X) so as to not defeat the purpose of reading and buying the book itself.
Noooooo fuckin way! 1st of April is my due date and I think I found myself a push gift or whatever you call it.
I’m so happy I caught your Facebook announcement today. I pre-ordered my copy via Amazon and posted on my Facebook page suggesting people buy some gifts. Good luck!
Ooh, that’s a good idea! Will do the same (UK)!
Officially pre-ordered! I can’t wait to read it 🙂
i just pre-ordered on amazon.com. i noticed the release date for the amazon.co.uk store is in May, so I just ordered from the .com store, and it will ship to me in Europe just fine. in March.
congrats, Amber! i love your blog!
So exciting! Can’t wait!
Done and done! Just pre-ordered from Amazon and got a copy for my sister too! I have two girls (15 and 8), but still remembering how crazy (er, fun?) it was when they were younger. Keep it coming!
Just ordered a copy for my daughter – expecting her first baby in May!
Congrats on the book! I almost never buy books (library reader here) and I really never pre-order them, but I just pre-ordered yours on Amazon and I can’t wait!!
Went to preorder on amazon uk but there is no kindle version available 🙁 I hope it will be pleeeeease. This is THE only blog I read xxx
Order it on Amazon.com and you can get it on kindle just the same, that is what I just did.
It wouldn’t let me, I tried but it said I have to purchase on amazon.co.uk as that is where my kindle is registered 🙁
I just pre-ordered! I can’t wait!!
Pre-ordered! Now I have to wait 50 days. I’m gonna need one of those tear chains…
Congratulations!
Will be gifting it!!
Pre-ordered on Amazon! I’m not good at waiting…
Immediately pre-ordered on Amazon.co.uk, and I also liked and tagged the book. Can’t wait to read it! And congratulations!
3 copies pre-ordered!
Congratulations!! But I’m really hoping “Penis Pizza” is in there!!! That is my favorite!!
I can’t wait for it come out! I might have to pre-order it!
preordered from Amazon 😉 I can’t wait to have these funnies in my nightstand for an anytime laugh!!
YAY! And March 26th is my son’s birthday! After giving birth, I’m a firm believer in buying myself a gift every year on my kids’ birthdays. haha
I like the way you think. I may just start doing that myself! Ha ha ha!
Well Done! I just pre-ordered 4 of them! 😀 You are terrific! <3
Yey!! I have no kids and parenting is a foreign term to me but I still love your stories!! Congratulations!
CONGRATS… I can’t wait to make my belly hurt from laughing so hard 🙂
Wooo!! I’ve been waiting excitedly since you first announced the book. Just pre-ordered. 😀
Yay! Congrats! I cant wait to read your book! I love your posts here, you rock! gonna ask hubby for your water bottle and stuff for my bday this summer lol gonna get your book before then though 🙂
I *KNEW* I was saving my Barnes & Noble giftcard for a reason! I am totally excited to put it to this good use….even if I do have to wait until the end of March to see the fruits of my purchase 🙂
Just pre-ordered off Amazon.com. Can’t wait….is it March yet? I need a laugh…
I thought it was supposed to be red, shiny and covered in farkles! Congrats, I will be ordering my copy shortly. 🙂
It comes out on my birthday, yeah!
That is so rad! Good for you! That’ll look good on a coffee table.
yay! officially pre-ordered!
Congrats! Can’t wait to read it!
Yay! Just pre-ordered a copy for myself and one for my sister. Congrats to you, and thanks for the laughs!
Awesome! My birthday is March 24th-Happy Birthday to me.
Please oh please come to Boston there is a cult following here ….. Please… Jamaica Plain specifically… Kinda like Berkeley meets the Mission minus the great food. Please! And so jealous Blossom read your book. <3 her.
Congrats! Will be ordering it shortly
It comes out on my birthday…so Happy Birthday to me!!! =)
Yay! March birthdays are Awesome. HaHa
Ok, it’s been preordered. Can’t wait!
Hi Amber!
Congratulations … I can’t wait to read it 😀
I do have one question regarding language… are there any curse words in it? I’m considering pre-ordering for my sister in law who’s due right around that time, and I think they’d find it hilarious except they are very anti cursing… so not such a good idea if there is any questionable language in it (sh!t is probably okay, f*ck probably not)
Thanks!!
Done! Just ordered my Kindle version and I can’t wait to get it. I know I’ll be giggling like a nut case and making those around me wonder what is going on 😉
can’t wait to read it!
Ahh I need to pre-order this. It comes out the day after my scheduled c section so I won’t be able to go out and buy it but I’m sure it would make my recovery time a lot more enjoyable (or painful if I’m laughing too hard lol)
Pre-ordered! I can’t wait!
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YAY!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS AMBER!!! I can’t wait to read it!!! 🙂
woohoo!! congratulations!! There are a lot of funny mommy blogs running around, but nothing gives me a little twinge of joy like seeing a new crappy post in my inbox! Thanks for the joy! You’re my super favorite!
You rock the house, yo.
Congratulations on your book. I can’t wait to read it because there is never time I come to your blog that I don’t leave smiling.
Just ordered mine from Amazon! Yay! Can’t wait! And what great endorsements! Way to go!
I can’t wait! (I work in a library, so I NEVER, buy books, but I am buying YOURS!)
Arhg! If I wasn’t moving in a month I would pre-order the hardcover! Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to wait ’til we get there. I’m buying some for gifts, too. Every mother needs this kind of humor!!
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read it.
I am going to get this book either way, but just be honest here – hardcover or Kindle? I love me some Kindle, as with some other illustrated books, thinking the hardcover is better.
Amber? Amber? I mean that is fine, but I just didn’t get “Amber” from you. But I’m a “Tammy”, and I hope to God no one gets “Tammy” from me, so that is OK. Good luck with the book. I absolutely love your stuff and connect my buncha buncha preschool families I teach to you.
Ordered my copy! I can’t wait!
Pre-ordered on Amazon! Woot! Can’t wait!
I too have just pre-ordered two books on Amazon UK!
One for me and one for my friend who is due in the Summer and at first won’t realise just how biographical this book is going to be…
Pre-ordered from Amazon. Can’t wait!
Oooooh…can’t wait! And I don’t care if it’s shiny or matte, it’s gonna be good!!
So I started reading this blog today and I’m addicted! Already pre-ordered my copy of the book and so excited that it’s coming in time to be a wonderful birthday present to myself! Thanks for keeping me entertained at work!